TMA marks maiden Greenwich Meridian Cultural Festival

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The Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) has held its maiden Tema Greenwich Meridian Cultural Festival (Merifest).Festival
The festival, which is the initiative of Mr Isaac Ashai Odamtten, Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive, was to promote cultural and tourism activities in the cosmopolitan metropolis.
Cultural groups from the Northern, Akan and the Volta communities in the harbour city showed off their dancing, drumming and singing skills as they displayed their cultures.
Chiefs of the various communities, who were also adorned in their regalia, thronged the durbar grounds at the Twedaase School Park at Tema Community one to grace the colourful occasion.
Mr Odamtten said the Merifest would help promote and sustain culture in Tema, and also foster unity among the various ethnic communities in the Metropolis.
Residents are also expected to take advantage of the festival annually to appreciate and learn about the various cultures in Ghana.

The MCE said his outfit has identified a number of potential tourist attraction sites in Tema, which would be developed for their full benefit .
Some of the sites, he said, included the black stone, Kwame Nkrumah memorial park, Greenwich Meridian Line, Shaajoo tso (Baobab tree) at the original settlement of the Tema (Toma) People, Tema Port among others.

Mr Joseph Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo, Greater Accra Regional Minister, commended the MCE and the TMA for initiating the festival.
Mr Afotey-Agbo urged all the residents in Tema who are not natives not to see themselves as visitors but as indigenes.

He said Ghanaians were one people, therefore, residents must contribute to the development of the areas they reside just as they would do in their native communities.
The Minister also implored them to extend a hand of love to each other no matter their ethnic, political or religious affiliations.

Nii Adjei Kraku II, Paramount Chief of Tema, pledged the support of the Tema Traditional Council for the sustainability of the MERIFEST.
Nii Kraku reminded residents that they must sell Tema to the world because among many other reasons, it is the centre of the world.

A citation was presented to the Tema Mantse by the TMA during the durbar to thank him for his support during his 22 years reign.

GNA

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